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Epidemiology of Malaria in European Travelers

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Malaria imposes an increasing risk to travelers, due primarily to the expansion of travel to highly endemic areas. Concomitantly, the spread of resistance to safe chemoprophylaxis and the diminished use of more efficacious drug combinations, because of toxicity, necessitates comprehensive and systematic appraisal of malaria risk [1]. In order to develop optimal recommendations to protect European travelers, we need to classify who is at risk and why.

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  1. P. A. Phillips-Howard
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  2. D. J. Bradley
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institut für Sozial- und Präventivmedizin der Universität Zürich, Sumatrastraße 30, CH-8006, Zürich, Switzerland

    Robert Steffen

  2. Malaria Branch, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, 30333, USA

    Hans Lobel

  3. Chemin Roitelet 5, CH-1292, Chambèsy, Switzerland

    James Haworth

  4. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WCLE 7HT, England

    David J. Bradley MA, DM, FRCPath, FFCM, FRCP, FlBiol, Hon. FlPHE

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Phillips-Howard, P.A., Bradley, D.J. (1989). Epidemiology of Malaria in European Travelers. In: Steffen, R., Lobel, H., Haworth, J., Bradley, D.J. (eds) Travel Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73772-5_17

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